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...fall. He conceded that he had-and this was promptly leaked to the press. Nixon associates also supplied the committee with a White House summary of conversations between Dean and Nixon that conflicted with Dean's account; this too was quickly conveyed to newsmen. Still apparently unwilling to abandon its discredited snooping tactics, the White House, TIME has also learned, has hired private detectives to probe Dean's background further. Claimed a source friendly to Dean: "They can't call on the FBI any more, so they've gone out and hired their own private eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Guerrilla Warfare at Credibility Gap | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...young American couple and a New Zealand woman six months pregnant. They and a dozen or so companions were heading for the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti and 530 miles northwest of rocky Pitcairn Island. Their mission: to force the French government to abandon plans to explode a series of nuclear devices in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR ARMS: Countdown at Mururoa Atoll | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...innocents are Ned and Beth Constantine and their twelve-year-old daughter. They are nice, safe people who come into a nice, safe inheritance, which allows Ned to abandon-pfaugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Corn | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

Paley announced that CBS, the network that had most antagonized the White House, will abandon instant analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Deferred Analysis | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...middle of 1970, however, Federal budget cuts forced the space agency to abandon its half-constructed research facility. The CRA claimed a breach of contract and the government responded by locating the Department of Transportation, under former Massachusetts Governor John Volpe, in the six-building complex...

Author: By Robert Mcdonald, | Title: Hard Times for Planners in East Cambridge | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

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